May 7, 2022

Ukrainian Memes Forces @uamemesforces

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FSB counterintelligence is a bit of an institutional embarrassment these days, quite frankly.

Shashank Joshi @shashj

What better moment for the FSB to celebrate a centenary of Soviet/Russian counterintelligence than a few months after being well and truly owned on that front by the US and UK. https://t.co/arKjsbhNCl

Filip Kovacevic @ChekistMonitor

Today #FSB marked the centenary of Soviet counterintelligence. The statement on FSB website is vintage KGB. Will FSB director Bortnikov & counterintel chief Zhomov try to match the propaganda blitz of #SVR director Naryshkin when SVR celebrated its centenary two years ago?

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Quick reminder that Tencent is a huge company that owns all the games. Like, all of them. If there’s a gaming company you know of, tencent owns it.

Adam Segal @adschina

Bypassing Huawei, Tencent and Coolpad have joined forces to create a new mobile operating system

t.cj.sina.com.cn绕开华为，国内两大巨头联手打造新手机操作系统，倪光南一语中的众所周知，在手机操作系统领域，安卓和iOS系统是绕不开的两座大山。而谷歌和苹果都是美国企业，换句话来说，手机操作系统几乎被美国垄断了。虽然目...

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ʝօɦռռʏӼʍǟֆ @J0hnnyXm4s

“In 2022, after many viral TikToks, the Ukrainian President launched a GoFundMe to raise funds to fend off invading fascist forces” is an item your children will have to memorize for a history exam. https://t.co/oTt9KasSJI

Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa

We launched United24 @U24_gov_ua global initiative. Its 1st component is an online platform to raise funds in support of 🇺🇦. Other projects & programs will be added soon. You can make a donation in 1 click from any country. Together we will win! #united24 #thepoweroffreedom https://t.co/notUt1P3ZF

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The Glasshouse Session of May 6th, 2022 has been uploaded to YouTube already.

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Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty

a creative list of ways to forget where you hid some valuables. https://t.co/foW3ugv33f

Nooruddean @BeardedGenius

This video is mad. And it just gets madder https://t.co/SnMMis1vMB

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Privacy info.

matt blaze @mattblaze

People asking about DIY and commercial Faraday bags, so re-upping this. Tl;dr: unless you’re equipped to do fairly esoteric testing, a good commercial bag is a much better, if somewhat pricey, choice.

mattblaze.orgMatt Blaze: Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags

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An older post, but interesting

https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-do-you-spy-when-world-shut-down

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Talk on: “data-driven cyber security, great power competition in technology, values, and national security @RUSI_org.”

RUSI @RUSI_org

🗓️Did you miss the first event in our Advanced Technology and Economic Resilience series? You can now watch back @NCSC Dr Ian Levy’s important speech on cyber, technology, geopolitics and values on our website. rusi.org/events/open-to…

rusi.orgAdvanced Technologies and Geostrategic Instability: A Conversation with Dr Ian Levy OBETo launch this RUSI event series, Dr Ian Levy, Technical Director of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, will discuss the relationship between Advanced Technologies, Economic Resilience, and Geostrategic Instability.

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Annoying YT/Mobile Ads @AnnoyingYTAds

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance @FalconryFinance

Be too strange and useless to exploit

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Reflections on “dark arts” of statecraft

Dr. William A. Stoltz 🇭🇲🌏 @WilliamAStoltz

In today's @australian I write that as the Australian Secret Intelligence Service turns 70, current geopolitics has raised the demand for ASIS’s services higher than at any time since its creation during the Cold War. theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/we-ha…

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Quite a neat little implementation of the “dd to /proc/${pid}/mem” trick

https://github.com/arget13/DDexec

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This will be very interesting.

Ben @jcksnsec

Nice find! This is a controller for a passive backdoor, BPFDoor, used by a China-based threat we track as Red Menshen. If you want to learn more, @Cyb3rBilly and I will be talking about Red Menshen and other CN threats to telecoms environments @WEareTROOPERS in June.

Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog

https://t.co/QEJ9NvAjJd

Details here:

https://www.troopers.de/troopers22/talks/7cv8pz/

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Administrivia:

I will be somewhat unavailable for this week, May 8-14. The news letter will be lighter than usual, or maybe I’ll do a digest every other day. Normal operations will resume on the 14th, so please times with me in these unusually trying bears. --gq